On the afternoon of December 19, 2020, the 2020 Annual Meeting and the Seminar on Europe and China-EU Relations in Changing Times was held by the SIES in the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). Dr. Zhang Yinghong, Director of Center for European Studies at SIIS, Deputy Secretary General at SIES, presided over the opening ceremony. SIES President Xu Mingqi and SIIS President Chen Dongxiao delivered opening remarks. Professor Michele Geraci, the former undersecretary of state of Italy's Ministry of Economic Development, delivered a keynote speech on Post-Election Trade and Geopolitical Relation between Europe and China. The members of the Institute listened, reviewed and approved the work reports made by Secretary General Yang Haifeng and Supervisor Cao Ziheng from the SIES. Prof. Wu Yikang, Prof. Dai Bingran, Prof. Fan Jun, Prof. Zheng Chunrong and more than 50 members carried out exchanges and discussions on topics such as COVID-19’s impact on Europe, European integration, EU strategic autonomy, China-US-EU relations, and the prospect of EU-China relationship. President Xu Mingqi made a con．
